While Major League Baseball is bringing the fight to Alex Rodriguez regarding his suspension, he is bringing the fight right back to them. While his lawyers and baseball are meeting all this week and probably next week as well in regards to either upholding his 211 game suspension, he has filed a lawsuit against MLB and commissioner Bud Selig. There are ALOT of real dirty things going on here. Hit the jump for more.
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A New York Times report is saying AROD’s lawyers claim MLB has used a “witch hunt” in an effort to force him out of the sport. In the complaint, Rodriguez’s lawyers claim an investigator paid $150,000 in cash for records related to Rodriguez, which were apparently stolen. A portion of the cash “was handed off in a bag at a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., area restaurant,” the lawsuit says. The lawsuit specifically accuses Major League Baseball of engaging in “tortious interference,” essentially interfering with Rodriguez’s existing contracts and future business relationships.
His lawyers are also saying baseball paid $5 million dollars in monthly installments to Anthony Bosch in order for his full cooperation. Bosch is the founder of the Biogenesis clinic, which is at the center of baseball’s latest performance-enhancing drug scandal. As per the report:
Rodriguez’s lawyers wrote that Major League Baseball had paid Bosch, the head of the now-closed Biogenesis clinic in Coral Gables, Fla., a total of $5 million in monthly installments “to buy his cooperation,” citing “at least one individual who claims to have knowledge of Mr. Bosch’s deal.” The lawyers said that baseball also promised to provide security for Bosch, cover his legal bills and indemnify him from civil liability stemming from the case.
If Rodriguez’s lawyers can prove that happened, that will severely damage baseball’s case against him. This saga is still months from being over. For the full version of the story, click the link below.
